Border and panel connecting machine



Jan. 3, 1933. Q COUNCIL ET AL LSQS BRDER AND PANEL CONNECTING MAJHNE Filed March 3, 1932 5 Sheets-'Sheet l zaen 65101077 z/OIM M /ScZV 790)/ 0. QGI' e By @im llorney Q. mamma $93,131

-BORDER B ND PANEL CONNECTING MACHNE Filed March CS, 1932 Jam 3, 1933V o. coUNclL E'T AL 1,893,131

BORDER AND PANEL CONNEGTING MACHINE Filed Maron 5, 1952 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 l Inventors 010677 (OUhC/ Z W gea?? 2P; Wd/Pl' q By @mov 4 A llorney Patented `lan. 3, 1933 PATENT OFFIQE OWEN COUNCIL, JOHN W. BEATY AND ROY O. BAKER, OF MISSION, TEXAS BORDER AND PANEL GONNECTING :MACHINE Application led March 8,

a practice known locally as bordering is resorted to and this bordering consists in providing the area to be used for agricultural purposes, with a'net work of earth mounds or ridges for the purpose of retaining, directing,

diverting and controlling the flow of water used in irrigation, and the exact shape and form of the plots or areas depend upon the contour of the terrain being irrigated.

This so called bordering is accomplished through the medium of what is known as border7 making machine for forming the ridges of the earth and provide the aforementioned net work of earth mounds which serve the purpose above mentioned.

The present difficulty encountered with the use of such machines now employed is that one set of such ridges or mounds will be continuous while the ridges at right angles to the first named ridges are interrupted by the iirst named ridges thus leaving at each corner of each blocked oif area of the field a gap or space which, under the present practice, must be filled in by manual labor, and with the use of shovels, hoes or like implements.

It is to overcome the need of this manual labor that forms a salient object of this invention, the present invention being a machine for mechanically performing this last designated operation.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the machine.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view thereof with the scrapers shown arranged in earth gathering position.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 with the Scrapers' arranged in dumping position.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a portion of one of the Scrapers.

Figure 5 is an elevation View of a trip rod.

Figure 6 is a diagrammatic view showing 1932. Serial No. 596,648.

the arrangement of the borders or earth ridges preparatory to the aforementioned gap being filled in in accordance with the present invention.

Referring in detail to the drawings it will be seen that the machine in accordance with the present invention comprises a substantially U-shaped frame 10 preferably formed of channel iron and supported between the ends 10 of the frame adjacent the open end BO of the U is an axle shaft 11 journalled in suitable bearings provided adjacent the free end of the frame members 10.

fr forwardly extending draft bar 12 is also provided at its rear end with a suitable bearing accommodating the shaft 11, and the draft bar 12 is braced with respect to the frame 10 through the medium of brace rods 13.

lotatably supported on the shaft 11 and 70 located adjacent each end thereof is a scraper designated generally by the reference character 14. Since these Scrapers 14 are identical in construction, it is thought that a detail description of one will teach the structure of the other. Accordingly the scraper consists of a pair of relatively spaced rimmed discs 15 each provided with a central aperture 16 through which the shaft 11 extends. Connecting the disks 15 is a plate 17 that is 80 curved transversely and is secured at its end to the rims 18 of the disks by rivets or in any 'other suitable manner indicated generally at 19. 0n the forward edge of the plate 1'? there is riveted or otherwise secured as 85 at E20 a scraping blade 21 which at its end is secured to the rims 18 in substantially the same manner as the ends of the plate 17 is secured to said rims. (See Figure 4).

As also shown in said Figure 4 each rim 90 18 in advance of the scraper blade 21 is notched as at 22 for a portion thereof whereby to provide for the use of the full length of the blade 21 during the scraping oper- 95 intermediate the ends of the end member` of frame 10 as shown in Figure 1. The rod 23 at each end thereof is provided with an angularly disposed terminal or arm 23a arranged to engage stop members or plates 25 fixed on the outer sides -of the outer disks 15 of the scraperst adjacent the peripheries of said disks.

intermediate the ends thereof the trip bar 23 is provided with a vertical shank 23 provided at its upper end with an eye 27 with which one end of a flexible cable or pull cord (not shown) may be connected for rotating the trip bar 23 in an anti-clockwise direction to thereby edect a movement of the arms 23a out of engagement with the stop y plate 25.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the machine is drawn forwardly over the ground, the scrapers 14 willhave a tendency to rotate in an anti-clockwise direction, and by reason of arms 23a being in the vpath of the stop plate 25 also resultsl in a tendency of the trip bar 23 to rotate in a clockwise direction. To prevent the rotat on of the scrapers 14 and the trip bar 23 there is mounted on the draft tongue 12 adjacent the rear end thereof a suitable stop member 28 arranged in the path of the shank 26 and with which the shank 26 will engage thereby limiting rotative movement of the trip rod 23 in said clockwise direction.

Thus it will be seen that with the parts as shown in Figure 2 the Scrapers 14 will be secured in position as to result in a scraping of dirt by the blades 21 on to the plates 17 of the scraping devices 14.

Means for automatically tripping or rocking the trip bar 23 in an anti-clockwise direction is provided, and such means consists in the provision o-f longitudinally bowed shanks 29 provided one adjacent each end of the bar 23 and depending therefrom. Each shank 29 is provided with a laterally extending arm or plate 30 arranged so as to engage a ridge of earth during travel of the machine whereby to automatically effect a jumping of the scrapers 14 as will be hereinafter made more apparent.

In Figure 6 there is shown somewhat diagrammatically an arrangement of borders, ridges, or earth mounds provided as and for a purpose hereinbefore set forth and the parallel unbroken ridges are designated by the reference characters 31 while the ridges extending at right angles to the ridges 31 are designated generally by the reference characters 32. The last named ridges 32 are interrupted at intervals throughout their respective lengths by the ridges 31 thus leaving gaps 33. Under the present system of forming these borders or ridges 31, 32, these gaps are filled in by manual labor.

machine embodying the features of the present invention and herein above described in detail, the machine is drawn across the field with the line of travel parallel to the ridges 31 and with the Scrapers disposed one to each side of a ridge 31. Thus it will be seen that the machine straddling a ridge 31 in the manner just suggested, and in travelling from one ridge 32 to the next adjacent ridge, will scrape and gather on the plate 17 of the scraping devices a quantity of dirt. When the machine approaches the ridge 32 located in the path of travel of the machine the dirt on the pan or plate 17 of the Scrapers is dumped for filling the gap 33 in that particular ridge 32 approached by the machine, which gap so filled will of course be the gap arranged at opposite sides of the ridge 3l straddled by the machine. i This dumping of the dirt for filling th aforementioned gap maybe effected either by pulling on the pull cord (not shown) and above referred to thereby rocking the trip rod 23 in an anti-clockwise direction and to the position shown in Figure 3 for moving the arms 23a out of engagement with the stop plate 25 with the result that upon slight forward movement of the machine the Scrapers will be rotated for effecting the dumping operation; or the release of the Scrapers 14 instead of being manually .effected in the manner just mentioned, may be automatically eifected by reason of the arms or plates 30 engaging those portions of the ridge 32 lying in the path of the plate 30, this engagement of the arms or plates 30 with said portions of the ridge 32 effecting a rotation of the bar 23 inl an anti-clockwise direction in a manner thought apparent and for moving the arms 23 out of engagement with the stop plate 25, or to the position shown in Figure 3.

By causing the machine to travel along each ridge 31 and repeating this operation adjacent each ridge 32, all the gaps 33 ma be expeditiously filled and a completion o the bordering operation attained in a minimum amount of time and with a minimum amount of labor.

Even though we have hereinshown and described the preferred embodiments .of our invention, it is to be understood that in actual practice the changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention, and accordingly we claim all such forms of the invention to which we are entitled, intending in no wise to limit the invention beyond the requirements of the prior art and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new is:

ino' in combination a rotatably mounted scraper, a stop plateon said scraper, a rockably mounted trip mechanism having an arm arranged in the path of said stop plate to retard rotation ofthe scraper in one direc- A machine of the class described comprisl iio tures.

OWEN COUNCIL. JOHN W. BEATY. ROY O. BAKER. 

